... and some US exchange students, and towards the end of the week our new local Sparkies, which does super chicken wings and Nachos. On one particular night, an unnamed member of our family managed to leave her hair, jacket, keys and wallet in the pub and then couldn't get into the house so had to get the police to let her in who then came up to the apartment and woke me up to make sure that it was in fact her house. All goods were retrieved the ...

... bottom of the second T-bar before heading back across a traverse to the first T-bar. Having completed this loop JJ wanted to head back to the terrain park so we separated from John and George. When we got towards the bottom of the top T-bar the queue was very short so JJ and I took this for an extended loop. The runs off this T-bar had, by now, seen a lot of traffic. However, they are so wide it was still possible to pick out groomed areas to ski through. Now ...

After this we were on the run to lunch. JJ wanted to head through the terrain park so I offered to film him on my camera. Off we set with me trying to keep up, avoid jumps, avoid people and focus on JJ. There is now video evidence of JJ in the park. The tricky part was avoiding others. There was a ski School class practicing snowplough turns between the jumps and later a couple just skied between two jumps without looking. ...

... top of the mountain. We discussed the lack of oxygen and JJ asked how much there was at the height we were at. A quick internet search when we got back told us that there is 13.7% of oxygen in the atmosphere at 3500m; this is 66% of the sea level amount. No wonder we felt it was difficult to try activities at the top of the mountain.

It was a great day’s skiing with near perfect groomed conditions and very few people. If this continues this week it will be ...